Heather Bell

I believe we had our first measles death yesterday--a child in Texas.

Our country is being run by King Lear.

Yes, we do forgive some of them just as we would forgive family members sucked into a cult. Many have been conned, manipulated, and gaslit.
However, those who approve of his xenophobia, fascism, and tyranny will need to held accountable.

YouTube video by WVU Libraries Audre Lorde reads A Litany for Survival

If you are not aware of this phenomenal woman, her work and her life, and you enjoy this poem, go and learn about her. Read her writing, study her activism, and embrace her courage.
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Loved it. A brilliant piece of artistry and social commentary.

Right? I'm a real black belt (not from a money grubbing McDojo). I've dealt w/abuse & been in real fights, but the bad sensei & how these kids fight out of class has me afraid to watch the last season. It's crazy how these kids so emotionally grab me.

Surround yourself with the kind of people who find the Oxford comma to be illuminative, beautiful, and necessary.

I feel the need to prepare for the coming authoritarianism, but I'm not sure how to prepare.
I know I will no longer be teaching essays or speeches written/spoken by straight white men, however. Their work just doesn't have the merit.

Knowing the names of the an unelected oligarch’s underlings who are destroying the government from within is a crime now, apparently.

Well done for making it to the end of January.

Stop whatever you're doing and read a book to reward yourself.

If you don't have a book, then buy one from an indie bookshop, that way you'll be making TWO people happy.

Yes, most Americans will continue calling it the Gulf of Mexico as well. This pom and circumstance is horrific.

Trump Just Revoked Anti-Discrimination Rules Enacted By LBJ In 1965 The new president just unwound a landmark anti-discrimination measure implemented amid the height of the Civil Rights Movement.

"This is not a return to...meritocracy." It legalizes and even rewards discrimination.
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Followed you from TikTok; please follow back. 💙☮️

LIVE NOW 🐶😻

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It's not available on Play.

We had to get in on the video action too — Bluesky now has custom feeds for video!

Like any other feed, you can choose to pin these or not. Bluesky is yours to customize.

They already are.

🤦‍♀️When loyalty "trumps" emergency aid, we have lost both our democracy and our humanity.

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TikTok of course. 🙂

Sadly true, but it's worth downloading for the short term just for the irony and to say🖕is what we think about the TikTok ban.

Between Bluesky, Red Note, and Pixelfed, people are really telling big tech corporations to fuck all the way off 😌

a woman wearing a yellow beanie is covering her nose Alt: a woman wearing a yellow beanie is covering her mouth in shock.

In the past 30 hours Americans, upset of about the seemingly inevitable TikTok ban, have download Xiaohongshu (Red Note) a Chinese social media platform based in China.

It is currently the #1 Free App in the Apple AppStore.

Chinese users have been welcoming “TikTok refugees” on the platform.

Americans are seriously so funny right now making Red Note the #1 app in the country ahead of the TikTok ban 🤣😭

Everyone’s Downloading a New Chinese Social Media App Before the TikTok Ban TikTok users are choosing to download Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu (translation: little red book, or Red Note) rather than scroll Instagram reels even once.

TikTok users are choosing to download Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu (translation: little red book, or Red Note) rather than scroll Instagram reels even once.

So did I. I like my Chinese spy better than the American & South African spies of Meta and X.

Yes

I am laughing hysterically as I watch the migration from TikTok to the Chinese-owned Red Note in anticipation of the TikTok ban. 😂

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